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Synchronous Interactions of Objects in Object Oriented Petri Nets

JANOUŠEK, V. Synchronous Interactions of Objects in Object Oriented Petri Nets. Proc. of MOSIS'99. Ostrava, Czech Republic: Marq software s.r.o., 1999. p. 73-80. ISBN: 80-85988-32-1.
Type
conference paper
Language
English
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Abstract

This paper presents an additional concept of object interactions in Object oriented Petri nets. Object oriented Petri nets (OOPN) is a formalism developed at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering FEI VUT in Brno during last few years in order to overcome problems with modeling highly dynamic systems by means of Petri nets. An experimental language based on OOPN is called PNtalk. OOPN and PNtalk are comparable with other well known approaches to object orientation in Petri nets. It is based on active objects communicating by a client-server (request-reply) protocol. Objects are described by high-level Petri nets enriched with a message sending mechanism and by a possibility to dynamically instantiate objects and methods. In order to improve its applicability in modeling some non-trivial real-world systems such as flexible manufacturing and workflow systems on an appropriate level of abstraction a new feature was added to OOPN. It allows synchronous interactions of objects and does not violate the pure object orientation of OOPN. This new concept is represented by synchronous ports. Its basic principle as well as some methodological aspects are discussed in this paper.

Keywords

object oriented Petri nets, simulation and modelling

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This paper presents an additional concept of object interactions in Object oriented Petri nets. Object oriented Petri nets (OOPN) is a formalism developed at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering FEI VUT in Brno during last few years in order to overcome problems with modeling highly dynamic systems by means of Petri nets. An experimental language based on OOPN is called PNtalk. OOPN and PNtalk are comparable with other well known approaches to object orientation in Petri nets. It is based on active objects communicating by a client-server (request-reply) protocol. Objects are described by high-level Petri nets enriched with a message sending mechanism and by a possibility to dynamically instantiate objects and methods. In order to improve its applicability in modeling some non-trivial real-world systems such as flexible manufacturing and workflow systems on an appropriate level of abstraction a new feature was added to OOPN. It allows synchronous interactions of objects and does not violate the pure object orientation of OOPN. This new concept is represented by synchronous ports. Its basic principle as well as some methodological aspects are discussed in this paper.

Published
1999
Pages
73–80
Proceedings
Proc. of MOSIS'99
Conference
33rd Spring International Conference Modelling and Simulation of Systems MOSIS'99
ISBN
80-85988-32-1
Publisher
Marq software s.r.o.
Place
Ostrava, Czech Republic
BibTeX
@inproceedings{BUT191953,
  author="Vladimír {Janoušek}",
  title="Synchronous Interactions of Objects in Object Oriented Petri Nets",
  booktitle="Proc. of MOSIS'99",
  year="1999",
  pages="73--80",
  publisher="Marq software s.r.o.",
  address="Ostrava, Czech Republic",
  isbn="80-85988-32-1",
  url="http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~janousek/publications/mosis99.ps.gz"
}
Projects
PNtalk - tools based on object-oriented Petri nets, BUT, Institucionální podpora na rozvoj výzkumné organizace, UIVT-PNtalk, start: 1994-01-01, end: 2010-12-31, completed
Research and Applications of Heterogenous Models, GACR, Standardní projekty, GA102/98/0552, start: 1998-01-01, end: 2000-12-31, completed
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